Systemic Treatment of Prostate Cancer:
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Main Author: Horwich, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford OUP Oxford 2010
Series:Oxford oncology library
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Item Description:Biological principles of hormone therapy -- PSA as a marker of progression and response in advanced prostate cancer -- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer -- Systemic treatment of recurrence after local therapies -- First-line hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer -- Second- and third-line hormone therapies -- Chemotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer -- Role of bisphosphonates in the systemic treatment of prostate cancer -- Systemic isotope therapy of bone metastasis -- Biological targets and new drug development for prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers in men in the western world, and the prevalence is rising currently due to improvements in screening and treatment. Serum PSA represents a useful marker of disease. It has frequently a long natural history, creating the opportunities for multiple sequential therapeutic interventions. For patients with high risk local disease or with metastases, endocrine therapy is central to management. Hormone ablation has long been the mainstay ofendocrine therapy in this group of patients, though anti-androgens, oestrogens and corticosteroids can also cause r
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (102 pages)
ISBN:019157581X
1283348330
9780191575815
9781283348331

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